A data drive in windows small business server 2008 was accidentally added to the list of backup devices, so of course the backup software repartitioned the drive for that purpose.
Before any backups ...

I have an exchange 2010 server where the domain controller/DNS has crashed and is beyond recovery (No backup, dont ask).
The Exchange server is still alive, but management and such cant load. I have ...

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with DAS storage attached (MD1000)
I rebooted the server to apply window updates (win2008), on restart BIOS detected a VirtualDisk was missing and wanted me to continue or ...

After I played with mdadm a bit too hard, I'm now tryng to recover my lvm2 volumes that were sitting in the original RAID1 array. pvscan finds nothing, but that's not a surprise: since mdadm is not ...

In the past few weeks, I have been playing with the configuration of our test MySQL server, without first making a mysqldump of applications running on it. Aim was to increase performance and enable ...

I caused a stupid accident in a single-disk ZFS pool, seemingly in the same way as the person in this mailing list thread, i. e., I seem to have overwritten important metadata. Can this be restored ...

I'm building a 7-disk RAID 6 array on a DELL MD3000 DAS box. My top priority is storage space, so I'd like to use 2TB drives -- but I'm worried about how long it will take to rebuild a failed disk.
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We are currently working on implementing a DR strategy. Instead of SAN-SAN replication, it has been decided to have 2 live file servers replicating via DFSR. However, I don't know whether or not this ...

Is it possible to replicate a LUN from our EMC VNX5300 to Amazon Web Services? This would be for a disaster recovery scenario. I've talked to AWS and they said to talk to EMC. I've talked to several ...

I've had discussions in the past with other people in my department about documentation, specifically, level-of-detail and requirements. In their view, documentation is a simple checklist of Y things ...

I have an Exchange 2010 SP3 DAG with 7 servers (3 in production, 3 in DR and a LAG). I have 2 CAS Arrays simply named casarray1 and casarray2. casarray1 sits in production and has the three production ...

We've got an old server with SCSI hard disk. The server crashed last week and it isn't exactly known what hardware component is damaged. Since the server is due to be retired anyway we don't want to ...

We run a dozen or so Ubuntu Linux webserver production instances on Amazon VPC. The instances are bootstrapped and managed via Puppet. Most management is done via the AWS Console.
Our AWS credentials ...

I'm trying to set up a remote DC for DR, and I've chosen to put it in AWS in a VPC with our other servers being backed up. I can restrict that with security groups to only accept traffic from the main ...

My CentOS 6.5 system was getting errors about the hard disk so I used partclone to clone the root filesystem.
Just 2 days later the hard disk died and the system would no longer boot.
So I replaced ...

Given that there are two ways to enable dial tone, I'm having trouble turing it off. The two ways I'm aware of are:
Dismount the database, delete it or rename it, mount it, Exchange will prompt for ...

Server A used to be a NFS server. Server B was mounting an export of that. Everything was fine. Then A died. Just switched off. Gone. Vanished.
However that folder is still mounted on B. I obviously ...

I'm getting ready to build one with some of the common apps I use including malwarebytes, Spybot, and memtest86 . What elese do you recommend I add? Is there a single CD image out there that has all ...

I have just been promoted to Systems Administrator for our product. We are designing a application that communicates with the cloud(Amazon EC2). I will be in charge of maintaining all Instances and ...

For our infrastructure we have a production site and a disaster site with SAN-based replication for the LUNs on the Windows servers. So for our proof of concept we have one server on the production ...